Brake Lights

[Sleeeka]

My rear lights work, reverse lights and indicators. Just the brake lights dont work when i press down...

Ive checked all the bulbs and all the fuses and still nothing.
Can anyone help ?

[el niño]

brake switch by the pedal.

[Sleeeka]

yeah man i checked that and it works..

[REN69]

How do you know the pedal switch works if the lights don't go on when you press the pedal?

[flex-appeal]

heard of a thing called a multimeter?

[Tercel GTS]

It can be a faulty turn signal switch, but it'd be the first one I ever heard of going bad on a toyota.

[flex-appeal]

considering the brake lights are the problem, I really doubt that the turn signal switch is where he should be looking - toyota or otherwise

[farqy]

i had a problem with my brake lights that when I hit the brakes, all the rear lights would go out... but the tail lights would work otherwise... i had a bad ground somewhere in my pigtails, so I replace all four of them, and now they work just fine... for now...

lots of wire splicing though

[Rick89GTS]

Check your ground connection point and fuses first!

[Sleeeka]

yeah i fixed it now, i cut the wire at the backend
connected it upto my old speaker wire and re routed it at the front end into the switch directly
and bam! Ive got working break lights once again!

[Tercel GTS]

Originally Posted by flex-appeal

considering the brake lights are the problem, I really doubt that the turn signal switch is where he should be looking - toyota or otherwise

If on a car with yellow turns this is correct. However he didn't say the problem was on the celica. On American cars and any others that share a bulb with brake lights and turn signals the turn switch interupts the brake signal to allow the bulb to flash. It is actually a common repair.